Police resorted to lathicharge after a group of people started ransacking the Manglaur police station on Tuesday after police rejected their demand of arresting two sons of the murder accused Nawab-Jamshed and Danish. Earlier, they gheraoed the police station. They erupted in rage as the police refused to act on their demand, saying that the duo was not present at the spot during the crime. Some police personnel were manhandled too, said the police station officer.
Notably, on Sunday night, 36-year-old Sukrampal who ran a welding shop at libberheri village near Roorkee was shot dead by one Nawab Ali Teli of the same village following altercation.
It is reported that Sukrampal had been noticing iron bars missing from his shop for some time and when he had taken the matter up with Nawab who owns a restaurant behind his shop Nawab allegedly started to abuse him. later, others, including Sukrampal’s brother, came to support Sukrampal Nawab in a fit of rage alegedly fired at Sukrampal from his licensed firearm.
Four persons have been booked so far in connection with the incident by police on Monday on the basis of the complaint lodged by the brother of the victim.
Two of them, including Nawab, have been arrested so far. It is learnt that police booked Nawab’s his two minor sons-Jamshed and Danish-under section 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 323(voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult to provoke breach of the peace) of the Indian Penal Code. However, they are yet to be arrested.